Life skills training is Ruth’s absolute passion and forte! When other services are needed, she is always training and coaching various life skills as well.

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Ruth specializes in preteens', teens', and young adults’ home, school, personal, and social lives with the following skill sets and challenges:

• Executive functioning skills

• Character development and personal growth 

• Stress management (calm in the midst of the storm) 

• Problem-solving strategies

• Structure and routine 

• Boundary-setting 

• Anxiety 

• Anger management 

• Setting goals, making plans, and following through 

• Self insight

• Self confidence, authenticity, and resilience

• Self advocacy, owning one’s own power 

• Self regulation, self control

• Respect 

• Social and emotional issues accompanying any learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, and/or other disorders or difficulties 

• Communication skills and active listening skills 

• Challenging and changing unhealthy and unhelpful thoughts and behaviors 

• Decision-making: Active Choice and Options Training 

• Understanding and accepting short and long-term consequences of one’s actions (cause/effect relationship) 

• Free time and personal interests 

• Current youth trends and problems associated with them: including bullying, peer pressure, "nature deficit", power of and problems with media: music, TV, tech toys such as social media, gaming, all “screens” 

• Substance abuse